In recent years, society has shown interest in correcting centuries of historically hurtful symbolism and terminology. As people begin to dig deeper into the U.S.’s often-problematic past, more and more words and phrases have revealed their racist origins.
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There is a wide array of still-commonly used phrases that some suggest should be examined further. Common terms like “black market,” used widely in conversation about cannabis culture and all business, according to Reader’s Digest, is just one example of a phrase with racist roots. Even “marijuana,” a term so common and accepted that it has even found itself in modern legislation, is a word that many say
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